Object: Evening dress
Designer:
Simon Thorogood
Date: Spring 1997
Medium: Duchess satin
Country: England
Credit Line: Gift of Simon Thorogood
Object number: 2009.54.1
DescriptionDam dress in grey duchess satin, floor length gown with hood and snap on back bow
Label Text:Simon Thorogood designed this dress to echo the form of pilotless aircraft—“drones”—recently developed by the military. As Thorogood describes, he took inspiration from “the lines, features or details of these very seamless, very minimal aircraft” in order to create luxury clothing for the future, clothing that did “not make any conscious reference to previous fashion.”
Exhibitions:
- Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme
- Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties
- Fashion and Technology
- Gothic: Dark Glamour